{"id":31915,"date":"2018-10-29T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31915"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:18:27","slug":"aadhaar-contradicts-the-role-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-contradicts-the-role-of-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar contradicts the role of the state\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/aadhaar-contradicts-the-role-of-the-state-say-petitioners-challenging-scheme\/article22466733.ece\"><strong>Aadhaar contradicts the role of the state<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Aadhaar scheme contradicts the role of the state as the custodian of the citizens\u2019 fundamental right of privacy. A duty is cast on the government and its agencies to protect the citizen\u2019s crucial personal data from commercial exploitation by private corporates,\u00a0petitioners challenging the scheme\u00a0submitted in the Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p><strong>State exploiting personal rights of individuals\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Referring to the nine-judge Bench judgment which\u00a0upheld privacy as a fundamental right, senior advocate Shyam Divan and advocate Vipin Nair submitted before a Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra that Aadhaar enrolment and subsequent leakages of personal mass data show that the state itself is exploiting personal rights of individuals by giving it to private corporates who use it for commercial ends<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Kill Switch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The state is empowered with a \u2018switch\u2019 by which it can cause the civil death of an individual. Where every basic facility is linked to Aadhaar and one cannot live in society without an Aadhaar number, the switching off of Aadhaar completely destroys the individual<\/p>\n<p><strong>No agreement with UIDAI<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>None of these private agencies which enrol citizens and collect their personal data have any agreement with the UIDAI<\/li>\n<li>There was no audit check of these private collection agents to whom the UIDAI had outsourced the work of personal data collection for years prior to the Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aadhaar contradicts the role of the state\u00a0 Context The Aadhaar scheme contradicts the role of the state as the custodian of the citizens\u2019 fundamental right of privacy. A duty is cast on the government and its agencies to protect the citizen\u2019s crucial personal data from commercial exploitation by private corporates,\u00a0petitioners challenging the scheme\u00a0submitted in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-contradicts-the-role-of-the-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aadhaar contradicts the role of the state\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704952558},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}